The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-07-05

Immigration questionable Danger Ahoad.
II is something hignihcsnt that oil over
this country at this time there ID notice.
able awakening on ttle queation Of foreign
4 immigration. Tho vast horaes OF people
who arc coming to our shores from
abroad, az many o. Il. 600 in a single day,
and amounting in the course Of q year to
the whole population Of one Of our re-
specially sized statcn, Is certainly cir
cumstance, III connection with upwards
OF 90, 600 votes polled for 3 socialistic can
didate in Chicago recently, to arouse
Americans, nativs and adopted, to sense
Of the danger that conlronta them and
that is every day assuming larger proper
lions. y, VI
eApropcs to this subject, wo notice in
the July number OF the Forum IN article
on the evils Of unrestricted immigration
to this country. by a5Norvesian writer,
Hjalmar Hjorth, himself f,rslgaer OF
eighteen years residence in the United
States and man Of high standing among
his counsrymen. His article is q striking
one and well worth reading for the seri-
GUS and intelligent view no takea Of what
he esteems to be threatening danger to
!; this country. We quote from it as fol-
lows: "a IS IS x. l5j%.S
What the country would have been to-
day II 1t had been dependent for it's growth
upon the natural Increase OF these three
millions THE population at the time OF the
(, Reyolution) and their decendents, it were,
;, perhaps, futile to inquire. That its pop.
4 ulation, territory, wealth and political
!, power would have been lar leas than they
now are, is beyond dispute. But that il
would have been o pleassnter country to
live in, better governed, less corrupt, less
harssaed by menscing problems in it's
4, immediate future, seems equally, certain.
: The fourteen millions Of imnieranss who
have made their homes in the United
4 States since the founding Of the republic
have immensely complicated the problem
Of slf-government. "A 81
y Considerable experience and obssrya-
!. ton during residsnce OF eighteen years
!. in the United States have convinced me
that this problem Of immigration has 70.
Gently assumed a much more serious
ifphase than the public or its repreaenta-
: itives in Congress are 2y0t aware. So long
/, % the immigrants greatly improved their
s condition by crossing tho Atlantic, they
d felt kindly toward the country Of their
4 adoption, and became, as rule, good
American citizens. Especially wa, .his
4 the case with Germans and Scandinavia.
/ ans, to whom my observation has been
chiefly confined. Thor, children wsre
proud, OF their American birth, often An.
\ elicizsd their names, and felt no parucu.
lar attachment for tho fatherland beyond
! the sea. But during the last Eve or ak
years a change hAs come over the spirit OF
4 the immigrant. / he now fluids the etrug.
/ Gle for existence here no leas severe than
Il fwas in The old country Il
1 Il The ~ man with w. two ID strong
arms and two empty pockets has not, dur.
ing recent times been able to gain IN in
dependence in half Ia dozen years by fru.
cality and toll He has been Obliged to
hire himself out rs a farm hand, Just as he
did in the old country; and though he has